What is to be done? - Nikolai Chernyshevsky Novel by Russian socialist/revolutionary Nikolai Chernyshevsky, written while being detained at the Peter-Paul Fortress by Tsarist authorities…
Roots of revolution: a history of the populist and socialist movements in nineteenth century russia - Franco Venturi An extensive work on Russian narodism/socialism spanning from the Revolutions of…
On social relations in Russia - Friedrich Engels Pamphlet by Engels responding to an "open letter" by the Russian revolutionary Pyotr Tkachev, in which Tkachev had criticized Engels'…
Bakunin and Nechaev - Paul Avrich Short work by Paul Avrich discussing the relationship between Mikhail Bakunin and the Russian revolutionary Sergey Nechaev, who played a role in…
Peasant patterns of resistance - Peter Kolchin Extracts from a chapter of historian Peter Kolchin’s book Unfree Labor, describing a few instances of a type of serf-resistance in Imperial…
Notes on Early Soviet Attitudes to Homosexuality Fragments of information concerning the attitudes of the Bolshevik government in its early years to homosexuality.
Interactive map of the 1905 revolution A map of the 1905-07 revolution – a precursor to the 1917 revolutions, which gave the world the workers’ councils, a staple of many revolutionary…
